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... pound of wheat at a penny is as dear as a pound of butcher's - meat at fourpence . The VOL . II . D small quantity of foreign corn imported even in times of CHAP . II . 33 TILE WEALTII OF NATIONS .
... pound of wheat at a penny is as dear as a pound of butcher's - meat at fourpence . The VOL . II . D small quantity of foreign corn imported even in times of CHAP . II . 33 TILE WEALTII OF NATIONS .
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... pounds upon the tun of French wine , and another of fifteen pounds upon the tun of French vinegar . French goods have never been omitted in any of those general subsidies , or duties of five per cent . , which have been imposed upon all ...
... pounds upon the tun of French wine , and another of fifteen pounds upon the tun of French vinegar . French goods have never been omitted in any of those general subsidies , or duties of five per cent . , which have been imposed upon all ...
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... pound weight of standard silver to the mint , you get back sixty - two shillings , containing a pound weight of the like standard silver.2 In France , a duty of eight per cent . is deducted for the coinage , which not only defrays the ...
... pound weight of standard silver to the mint , you get back sixty - two shillings , containing a pound weight of the like standard silver.2 In France , a duty of eight per cent . is deducted for the coinage , which not only defrays the ...
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... pounds sterling lying upon their respective accounts ( a very large allowance ) , the whole quantity of bank money , and consequently of treasure in the bank , will amount to about three millions sterling , or , at eleven guilders the pound ...
... pounds sterling lying upon their respective accounts ( a very large allowance ) , the whole quantity of bank money , and consequently of treasure in the bank , will amount to about three millions sterling , or , at eleven guilders the pound ...
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... pounds , for example , or to a million on each side , each of them would allord an annual revenue , in the one case , of a hundred thousand pounds , in the other , of a million , to the inhabitants of the other . If their trade should ...
... pounds , for example , or to a million on each side , each of them would allord an annual revenue , in the one case , of a hundred thousand pounds , in the other , of a million , to the inhabitants of the other . If their trade should ...
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Página 314 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Página 279 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Página 156 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Página 279 - He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life.
Página 209 - ... the duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works and certain public institutions which it can never be for the interest of any individual, or small number of individuals, to erect and maintain, because the profit could never repay the expense to any individual, or small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society.
Página 160 - The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.
Página 18 - To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it. Not only the prejudices of the public, but what is much more unconquerable, the private interests of many individuals, irresistibly oppose it.
Página 15 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted not only to no single person but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Página 15 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.
Página 10 - It carries out that surplus part of the produce of their land and labour for which there is no demand among them, and brings back in return for it something else for which there is a demand. It gives a value to their superfluities, by exchanging them for something else, which may satisfy a part of their wants, and increase their enjoyments.